Welcome to my site. Thanks for stopping by.
This is a work in progress, so I'll be updating it occasionally throughout the year.
I recently finished my undergraduate studies and got my Honours Bachelor's degree in Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence from the University of Toronto.
As of Fall 2007, I'm pursuing a Master's degree in Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence - Computational Linguistics), also at the University of Toronto. My supervisor is Graeme Hirst.
My research revolves around the topic of automatic text classification - namely, determining the political ideology of a speaker from what they say in a debate. Ideally, we would be able to correctly determine whether a given speech segment is spoken by a member of the Liberal party, the Conservative party, NDP, etc.
I was born in Russia, grew up in Latvia, but I've been in Toronto for the past 13 years. So I have 2 native languages (English and Russian) and I've also studied French, Spanish, and German.
I do a lot of things with my time, but at the moment I dabble in photography, strength training, and mixed martial arts.
Eventually I want to pursue projects in film and music when I have the time. Otherwise, feel free to look around the site to find out more.
